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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2022-48279): ModSecurity vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2022-48279): ModSecurity vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/20/2023
Created
09/18/2023
Added
09/18/2023
Modified
09/18/2023

Description

In ModSecurity before 2.9.6 and 3.x before 3.0.8, HTTP multipart requests were incorrectly parsed and could bypass the Web Application Firewall. NOTE: this is related to CVE-2022-39956 but can be considered independent changes to the ModSecurity (C language) codebase.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libapache2-mod-security2
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libapache2-modsecurity

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